Hello everyone. I wanted to hang out for a couple weeks before bursting in and blowing my own horn, when absolutely no one knows me. I hope that now is amore appropriate and polite time to announce this.My debut CD, A Distant Light, was released Dec. 27th, 2010 and is now availablefrom my web site at http://hollanholmesmusic.com

A Distant Light might in fact be one of the finest debuts by a US ambient artist in recent memory. Tactile, absorbing, shifting unceremoniously between modes of 'light' & 'dark' with great finesse, the restless tableaux on hand proffer various strands of muted greys and other muddy sonic hues. Holmes' tonal palette is complex enough to shirk cliché, thanks to a knack for concocting sounds that don't simply plumb the well-worn environmental drones of yesterday: oddly disturbing eddies of hushed 'beats' occasionally surface to vie with low-key bass thrum and grandly isolationist tonal clusters. Expertly done and deserving of wider recognition.